PINEHURST -- Ties for the lead were the order of the day on Monday after the opening round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A women’s golf championships at Pinehurst number five.
Three golfers share the individual lead entering Tuesday’s final day of the 36-hole event while Charlotte Myers Park and Asheville A.C. Reynolds are knotted in the team standings.
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BURLINGTON— Hickory players swept both the singles and doubles crowns in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 3-A women’s tennis championships on Saturday at the Burlington Tennis Center.
Hickory’s Emily Mauser completed a great high school career in which she advanced to the state championship match four consecutive times by winning her first state title after three runner-up finishes. Mauser defeated defending champion Cameron Chatman of Jamestown Ragsdale 6-4, 6-1, in the final.
Louisburg
Hendersonville
First Flight
Starmount
DH Conley
West Henderson
Southwest Guilford
Enka
Mt. Tabor
Please fax your roster and facts forms in ASAP and email a team photo to qholden@email.unc.edu or you may email all this information. If you have any questions please call me at 919-962-7784.
CARY—Maggie Ronan of Kernersville Bishop McGuinness won her 29th consecutive match of the season against no losses in clinching the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 1-A women’s singles championship at the Cary Tennis Center on Saturday.
Ronan, who last year was the singles runner-up to Kasey Mabe of North Stokes, defeated Mount Airy’s Taylor Gwyn in straight sets by 6-1 and 6-2 to earn the championship. Gwyn’s singles record dropped to 25-4, with three of those losses to conference opponent Ronan.
RALEIGH—Sophomore Kaitlin Burns of Wilmington Hoggard captured two matches on Saturday to win the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A women’s tennis singles championship at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center on the North Carolina State University campus.
Burns rolled to the state championship with an easy 6-1, 6-0 triumph over Kinsey Pate of Matthews David Butler after eliminating Greensboro Page’s Caroline Newman 6-3 and 7-5 in a morning semifinal.
CARY— Britney Cloer of West Henderson won her fourth consecutive North Carolina High School Athletic Association state singles championship on Saturday, winning the 2-A crown in straight sets over Ruhsona Usmanova of the Durham School of the Arts.
FIRST DAY, NCHSAA 2-A TENNIS
NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
2006 WOMEN'S 2-A TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, Durham
Singles-First Round
Changes have been made to the 1A/2A/3A tee times as of 11:05 AM. If you have any spelling corrections please contact Drew at 919-962-3479.
CHAPEL HILL—Four different classifications will determine individual champions this weekend as the North Carolina High School Athletic Association holds its annual women’s tennis championships.
State crowns in singles and doubles will be up for grabs, but no team score is determined. The team championships will be decided by the dual team tournament that concludes with its championships on November 4.
For more information on the invitiational please click on the cheerleading link on the homepage and then click on the Cheerltd logo.
CHAPEL HILL-- The North Carolina High School Athletic Association will be recognized by the University of North Carolina this Saturday at Kenan Stadium.
The North Carolina-South Florida football game, which has a kickoff time of noon, has been designated as the 22nd annual NCHSAA Day. The university actually spearheaded the founding of the NCHSAA in 1913.
Brackets for Volleyball and Women's Tennis have been posted, Men's Soccer wil be up later this week. Brackets can be found on the main page of the NCHSAA website by clicking on the link Championship Brackets, then click view Championship Brackets and select current championships beside the sport you would like to view.
Over the past few weeks we have been very lenient regarding failure of many schools to submit 8-Quarter forms by the published deadlines. Starting Monday, September 25, any forms that are not received by the specified deadlines will be penalized with the $500.00 fine for “failure to submit appropriate paperwork,” as found on page 136 of the NCHSAA Handbook.
The deadlines are as follows:
**Pre-participation Form – Friday by 3:00 P.M.
**Follow-up Form – Monday by 4:00 P.M. (even if players do not play)
CHAPEL HILL-- The North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced today the winners of its 11th annual NCHSAA Student Services Sportsmanship Awards.
East Bladen High School and Hendersonville High School share the honor among 1-A schools for the 2005-06 academic year, while West Bladen was the overall winner in 2-A and Triton earned the award for 3-A schools. All of these will be recognized in acknowledgement of the sportsmanship initiatives in place at their schools.